Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (JCM 7812)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (JCM 7812)
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BacDive ID 165617

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 7812

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections JCM

History N. Wakao AIU 002.

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans JCM 7812 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Acid mine water from Matsuo sulfur and iron sulfide mine on Hachimantai volcano.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 111365

JCM 7812

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:40:08

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Temple and Colmer 1951) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (1)

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans** (13)	Type strain
118	A. ferrooxidans TM, DSM 14882, ATCC 23270, NCIMB 8455 (type strain)
111	A. ferrooxidans DSM 583
112	A. ferrooxidans DSM 584
113	A. ferrooxidans DSM 585
114	A. ferrooxidans F221, DSM 1927
115	A. ferrooxidans N-Fe3, DSM 9464
116	A. ferrooxidans NFe-4, DSM 9465
117	A. ferrooxidans Tf18, DSM 11477
120	A. ferrooxidans SP5/1, DSM 24419, JCM 39165
130137	A. ferrooxidans R1, DSM 29444
162005	A. ferrooxidans JCM 17309
164860	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3863, ATCC 19859, BCRC 13033, NCIMB 9490
164861	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3865

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
67770	Acid mine water from Matsuo sulfur and iron sulfide mine on Hachimantai volcano	Iwate Pref.	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN686782 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidithiobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	432
Soil Samples	127
Animal Samples	60
Plant Samples	27
Total Samples	646

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans partial 16S rRNA gene, strain JCM7812	FN686782	1400		1689834

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	56	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Missing Iron-Oxidizing Acidophiles Highly Sensitive to Organic Compounds.	Ueoka N, Kouzuma A, Watanabe K.	Microbes Environ	10.1264/jsme2.me16086	2016
Metabolism	Acidithiobacillus ferriphilus sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron- and sulfur-metabolizing extreme acidophile.	Falagan C, Johnson DB.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000698	2016

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (JCM 7812)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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